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VOTD: Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ Sendoff Details His Upcoming Movie ‘Rosewater’ By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2013 1:30 pm EST Fans of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were met with a decidedly different show Thursday night. It was Stewart’s final show before he leaves for the summer to helm his first film, Rosewater. He’ll return to his award-winning Comedy Central news show in September. Before leaving, Stewart laid out exactly how the film came about....

WTF: Peeps Movie In Development By Angie Han/April 23, 2014 7:30 am EST Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone decides to make a Peeps movie. Yes, that’s Peeps as in those sugary marshmallow confections that crop up in drugstores everywhere around Easter. The specific “someone” in this case is Adam Rifkin, director of Detroit Rock City, who has just optioned the film and TV rights to the candies....

‘Die Hard 2’ Director Renny Harlin To Helm Competing ‘Hercules’ Movie By Angie Han/Feb. 4, 2013 12:30 pm EST Weeks after MGM and Paramount announced a summer 2014 release for their Hercules project with director Brett Ratner and star Dwayne Johnson, Millennium has set a spring 2014 date for its own take on the hero. This one comes from Die Hard 2 helmer Renny Harlin and will be in 3D, as evidenced by its title Hercules 3D....

‘Heaven Is For Real’ Trailer: Greg Kinnear’s Son Sees Dead People By Angie Han/Nov. 15, 2013 8:00 am EST What would you do if your kid had a near-death experience and came back to life claiming to have seen heaven? Real-life couple Todd and Sonja Burpo found themselves in exactly that situation, after their four-year-old son Colton barely survived surgery. While the parents were initially unsure what to believe, they eventually came to trust their son’s revelations, and in 2010 the father published the book Heaven Is For Real about the family’s experience....

‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Review: Joss Whedon Makes Shakespeare His Own By Germain Lussier/June 7, 2013 9:30 am EST (This review originally ran during SXSW, in March. As Much Ado About Nothing hits theaters today, we present it once more.) In the world of drama, nothing is quite as distinct or lovely as the prose of William Shakespeare. His vocabulary, his rhythm, rhymes and descriptions, all established a standard against which others are still measured....

‘Pacific Rim’ Trailer: Giant Robots Beat Down Giant Monsters Under The Eye Of Guillermo Del Toro By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2012 4:10 pm EST Here’s the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “giant monsters versus giant robots” film Pacific Rim. We’ve seen blueprints of the robots, and an early bit of video showing a monster attack, but unless you were at Comic Con you haven’t seen anything like this footage yet....

‘Peaky Blinders’ Season Two Trailer Features Tom Hardy And Cillian Murphy By Russ Fischer/Sept. 15, 2014 10:30 am EST The first season of British gangster series Peaky Blinders has flown under the radar of many viewers in the US, despite starring Cillian Murphy and Sam Neill. Expect the show to experience a huge uptick in interest soon, however, as the second season will also feature Tom Hardy. The show was created by Steven Knight, who writes and produces....

‘Planes’ Trailer: Disney Has A Need For Speed And A Fear Of Heights By Angie Han/May 28, 2013 4:30 pm EST The Formula One rivals of Ron Howard’s Rush won’t be the only racers speeding toward possible death this year. Disney’s Planes features an aerial race contender so inexperienced and unqualified that his very participation prompts one character to shrug, “Well, he’s going to die.” In most other respects, though, we can probably expect Planes to be a much different affair from Howard’s historical drama....

‘The Smurfs 2’ Trailer: Smurfs Gone Wild By Angie Han/Dec. 18, 2012 7:00 am EST Unless you’re still in grade school, odds are you weren’t dying for another installment of The Smurfs. But the first film was a runaway hit worldwide, grossing an impressive $563 million worldwide, so now we have The Smurfs 2 to contend with next summer. Directed once again by Raja Gosnell, the CG sequel sees Gargamel (Hank Azaria) hatching a new plan to get that Smurf juice he so desperately needs....

‘Tron Uprising’ Animated Series Trailer By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2011 12:16 am EST Part of the whole plan with Tron: Legacy was to launch a multi-platform new franchise which would span the movies, potential sequels, video games, animated television projects and maybe even a theme park attraction. The animated series Tron: Uprising voice cast includes Elijah Wood, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Paul Reubens, Nate Corddry, Lance Henriksen and Tron himself Bruce Boxleitner....

A Cast Of Kings S3E02 - Dark Wings, Dark Words By David Chen/April 8, 2013 9:49 pm EST Joanna and Dave discuss the second episode of season 3 of Game of Thrones, “Dark Wings, Dark Words.” E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the podcast, at acastofkings@gmail.com. You can find every episode of the show at gameofthronespodcast.com. If you like the show, feel free to leave us a review on iTunes!...

Antoine Fuqua May Be Next In Line For ‘The Equalizer’ By Angie Han/March 21, 2013 11:10 am EST Paul Haggis, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Rupert Wyatt have all been attached to Sony’s The Equalizer at one point or other over the last few years. Now it’s Antoine Fuqua’s turn to try and take the helm. The filmmaker has entered early talks to reunite with his Training Day star Denzel Washington for the action thriller, which is still hoping to shoot later this spring....

Comic-Con Posters: Drew Struzan’s ‘How To Train Your Dragon 2,’ Plus ‘The World’s End’ And ‘The Walking Dead’ By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2013 11:00 am EST Fans hoping to return from San Diego Comic-Con with a big stack of awesome stuff for their walls shouldn’t have a problem. All the usual suspects in the poster world will be on hand selling limited edition screenprints and several major pop culture properties are offering awesome, but not limited posters, too....

Deadpool Movie Will Be Part Of The X-Men Universe By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 6, 2014 7:00 am EST X-Men: Days of Future Past writer and producer Simon Kinberg confirmed the details to CBM: Now of course, Kinberg does not confirm that Deadpool will be a continuation of the character we first saw in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but he seems to suggest it mentioning the character fits into the “overall timeline” of the X-Men cinematic universe....

Director Sam Mendes Likely To Commit For ‘Bond 24’ By Angie Han/Feb. 15, 2013 8:46 am EST Five decades in, James Bond is still going strong. In fact, Skyfall represented a new high point for the franchise in big ways. Critics and fans ranked it among the best 007 adventures of all time when it opened last year, and it smashed the series record in terms of box office gross....

By Russ Fischer/Dec. 10, 2013 12:34 pm EST Outside of Comic Con there has been no footage release from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but the film features Gary Oldman, Keri Russell and Andy Serkis, with Matt Reeves (Let Me In, Cloverfield) directing. [Variety]

Geek Deal: 66% Off ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection’ By Peter Sciretta/July 30, 2013 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.

Hugh Jackman Says There Are “Really Cool Ideas” For ‘The Wolverine’ Sequel By Germain Lussier/Nov. 14, 2013 11:15 am EST The film is still a long ways off – there’s not even a script yet – but in a new interview Jackman said he recently spoke to Mangold and the ideas he has are “really cool.” Jackman spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the sequel, and said the following: After The Wolverine, much was made that Jackman didn’t have a contract to play the character moving ahead....

Lena Headey To Star In Clive Barker Adaptation ‘Jacqueline Ess’ By Russ Fischer/May 7, 2014 10:30 am EST David Cronenberg is the king of body horror, but the early works of Clive Barker have their own sharp and disturbing body horror angle, too. While most of the films based on his early short stories don’t make as much of that aspect as they might, there’s still hope for any new adaptation from the Books of Blood....

Page 2: Walking Dead, MacGyver, Mary Poppins, Star Trek, Paranormal Activity 4, Doctor Who, Prometheus, Game Of Thrones, Toy Story, Skyfall, Stargate, Terry Gilliam By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2012 8:00 am EST Header Photo: Millhouse tattoo 7 Scientific Facts That Will Ruin Movies for You 4 Films and 1 Comic Book Looper Totally Ripped Off The Walking Dead Zombie Army MenThe 10 Most Badass Fictional Flying Cars of Sci-Fi The 25 most warped movie villains...